Individual Tutorial

Duchamp, Gerard richter: travelling and the body. Movement.

Dialogue between the paint and the body - paint is the body and vice versa

Sigmar Polke:

Works with oils and acrylic combined. Combining the two in my work will change the control I have over the paint - not familiar with it. Have control over my body. Have no control over other people's bodies. The relationship between control and the body and paint. 

Why the human body: always liked portraiture, aesthetics of the colours of the skin, using blues and greens and pinks - unnatural and usually ignored and forgotten by the human eye. Particularly appealing and intriguing to me. Painting with green originated in the Renaissance and pre Renaissance. Painted green as the base - many reasons, undertones of the skin, veins etc.

Change up the sizes I paint at. Have three big pieces on the go at once so you can vary between them, have different ideas going on at the same time, compare. Also work small and try to fit all of the same information and ideas that I had on the bigger pieces on a small, compressed piece. 

Want to work really big - maybe my exact height by my exact art length, almost a self portrait. Becomes about the movement of my own body and the application of the paint than the subject itself. Paintings and sculptures that are lifesize have a different sort of meaning to them - sort of come to life.

Vary between large brush stokes showing movement and big gestures, contrast these to small, detailed, meaningful, delicate brush strokes. Or maybe not even small and detailed but more skilled and deliberate than the usual bold gestures I am creating. 

Working with encaustic wax to create more texture to the work - Frank Auerbach - thick body of paint, gestural, abstract, sort of reminent of the body/portraiture. 

Katie Moran works from an  image - turns it upside down and works from it abstractly. Uses it as inspiration not directly. Colours and texture etc. 

Working large scale - where to buy a large enough piece of canvas? Stretcher bars. Try transparent primer so working onto a different background, might be good for my work. If can't find transparent primer use 1/2 and 1/2 PVA and water for first coat, then 75% PVA, 25% water for second coat.

Working onto board another alternative, prefer canvas.